On 2018-01-15 19:46, Skip Montanaro wrote: >>> Inside of a virtualenv, what's the difference between a --user install >>> and a system one? >>> >> >> It errors out: >> >> % pip install --user urllib3 >> Can not perform a '--user' install. User site-packages are not visible >> in this virtualenv. > > I was able to 'pip install --user ...' a package yesterday in a Conda > environment, so I think it's a YMMV sort of thing. Having only ever > used the Conda environment stuff, I've generally interpreted the term > "virtual environment" in a fairly generic way. > > Skip >
I just tried that and it turns out that that installs the package into the main anaconda/miniconda installation rather than the conda env. Definitely not what you want. -- Thomas -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
